AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dell and Red Hat Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open
source solutions, today announced the companies will jointly engineer
enterprise-grade, private cloud solutions based on OpenStack to help
customers move to and deploy highly-scalable cloud computing models. As
part of the expanded relationship, Dell becomes the first company to OEM
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform. The co-engineered solution
will be built on Dell infrastructure and Red
Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform.
The solution will be delivered by a Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack
Platform practice within Dell Cloud Services.

Dell and Red Hat have partnered for
more than 14 years to bring global customers value by collaborating
on Red Hat solutions across Dell’s enterprise offerings. Just as Dell
and Red Hat collaborated in the early days of Linux, Dell is showing its
vision by becoming the first to OEM Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack
Platform. With today’s announcement, Dell and Red Hat are strengthening
their longstanding collaboration and commitment to help businesses
confidently embrace open source-based cloud computing models. With this
development, customers worldwide will not only benefit from the
co-engineered solutions, but the companies combined cloud expertise,
enterprise innovation, and dedicated support and portfolio of services.

Dell and Red Hat will also jointly contribute code to the OpenStack
community and collaborate on Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
4, currently
in beta, which integrates OpenStack Havana, Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization Hypervisor, and Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5. In addition, Dell plans to work closely
with Red Hat on several future-state projects including:

OpenStack Networking (Neutron) to enable Software-Defined Networking
and Networking-as-a-Service between interface devices such as virtual
network interface cards, and

OpenStack Telemetry (Ceilometer) to provide OpenStack resource
instrumentation, which can help support service monitoring and
customer billing systems.

Lastly, Dell is joining the Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure
Partner Network as an Alliance Partner, the highest tier of program
membership. The Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Partner Network
connects both business and technical resources to third-party technology
companies who are aligning with Red Hat’s OpenStack product offerings.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform combines the power of Red
Hat Enterprise Linux with Red Hat’s OpenStack cloud platform to deliver
an enterprise-grade, scalable and secure foundation for building a
private cloud. The alliance with Red Hat complements Dell’s cloud
strategy of offering customers open, flexible and scalable technology to
build, use and control cloud infrastructures.

Additionally, Dell now offers Dell
Cloud Consulting and Application Services to provide expert guidance
in helping assess, build, operate and run cloud environments and enable
and accelerate enterprise OpenStack adoption. Dell’s expertise spans the
hybrid cloud spectrum, with service options ranging from cloud readiness
assessment, infrastructure design and operations, and application design
and modernization. As a result, Dell customers can achieve increased
efficiency and greater realization of the business benefits of cloud
computing.

Supporting Quotes

Paul Cormier, President, Products and Technologies, Red Hat

"Our collaboration with Dell keeps getting better and today’s
announcement to co-engineer OpenStack solutions marks a significant
milestone for both companies and customers. Just as we successfully
collaborated with Dell to establish Red Hat Enterprise Linux as an
enterprise industry standard, we’re now extending our collaboration to
help establish Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform as the
standard for open private cloud in the enterprise. Dell and Red Hat are
committed to jointly developing and delivering enterprise-grade
OpenStack offerings to help customers pursue private cloud today, and
advanced computing models in the future.”

"Dell has been a long-time advocate and participant in the open source
and OpenStack communities, pushing the charter of an open alternative to
proprietary, enterprise computing systems. Our agreement to co-engineer
OpenStack solutions with Red Hat takes our commitment a step further in
helping customers obtain and deploy OpenStack solutions for an
enterprise-grade, private cloud infrastructure to meet their evolving
business needs. We will extend our work with Red Hat to apply our
combined experience in commercializing open source for the benefit of
our mutual customers as well as the open-source community on its
development of networking, storage and compute capabilities."

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